Zimmerman court paperwork: I'm here and I'm gonna take part in my divorce

In a new court filing, George Zimmerman says he plans contest his wife's divorce petition and the reason he hasn't until now is that he got notice while in jail and jailers immediately took away the paperwork.

He says he found out about the default only through media accounts and word of mouth.

Kelly Sims, the attorney for his wife, contends Zimmerman successfully dodged process servers for months. They found him at the Seminole County Jail shortly after he was arrested for domestic violence in November, a case that prosecutors have since dropped.

In the new pleading Zimmerman says he did not respond to the divorce action because when he received notice at the jail, jailers almost immediately took away the paperwork, along with his other belongings, and he did not see it again.

The pleading is not a formal response to his wife's divorce petition. That should come later.

Zimmerman is represented by Erin Duncan, an Orlando attorney for Ayo & Iken, a Tampa law firm that specializes in divorce.

Zimmerman is the former Neighborhood Watch volunteer acquitted of second-degree murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black 17-year-old killed in Sanford in 2012.